1687 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1687. Events A Latin edition of the works of Confucius is published in Paris, the first translation of his works into any Western language. Confucian Sinarum Philosophus is the work of Jesuit scholars and Chinese converts to Christianity. The Académie française publishes the first sections of its Dictionnaire in Frankfurt. New books Prose Antoine Furetière – Couches de l'Académie Ihara Saikaku The Great Mirror of Male Love (男色大鑑, Nanshoku Ōkagami) Transmission of the Martial Arts (武道伝来記, Budō Denraiki) Gerard Langbaine – Momus Triumphans, or the Plagiaries of the English Stage Exposed Isaac Newton – Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) Charles Perrault – Le Siècle de Louis le Grand (The Century of Louis the Great) George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax – Letter to a Dissenter